From Hell, A Graphic Novel

[Doctor X]

"Ladies never move."

--Lord Curzon, instructing his second wife on sex

--J.D.

[Mike Covell]

Just in the Graphic Novel Thankfully!!

At least the Hughes Brothers spared us that!

[Sam Flynn]

The sex scene between the Gulls especially churned my stomach

Here's a still...



...seriously, though, I don't recall Sir William lunging his groats with Lady Gull in this film. Did they?

[Mike Covell]

I wish it was the plug she was pulling!!!!

[Doctor X]

Plug?

--J.D.

[Mike Covell]

Was that the scene were he was in the bath tub and she pulled his

[denn034]

Unimpressed

I read a library copy and wasn't impressed to say the least. The sex scene between the Gulls especially churned my stomach that one's for sure. More importantly, making the 70 year old dribbler that was Gull a Ripper makes no sense at all.

[Mike Covell]

BBC News Interview with Alan Moore,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7307303.stm

[CraigInTwinCities]

Alan Moore's graphic novel, From Hell, is an impressive work that re-energized my interest in the Ripper case about eight years ago; I bought it in collected form and paid $35 USD back then. Very very thin paper, and had problems keeping the book bound securely, lost pages....

I'm not big on the Royal Conspiracy theory it presents, a lot of Moore's work is bound up in Stephen Knight crud, but at the end Moore's real reaction comes to the surface... that the theories don't matter, the "whodunnit" solution doesn't matter, because there's a bit of timelessness to it, that the mystery reveals more about the people obsessing over it than it does about the truth of the matter, that Jack becomes more a symbol than a person, no matter who he was.

While I don't buy much of the theory presented, it was a RIPPING good yarn, pun obviously intended.

FROM HELL got me back into studying the case more closely in the last few years. I absolutely HATE the movie made from it, and understand that Alan Moore has no love for it, either. To say that film is based on Moore's graphic novel... is like saying THE SIMPSONS MOVIE is based on the book of Esther from the Bible.

[drstrange169]

I bought it as and when it came out, way back in the early 1990's.
Waiting for each issue, which was sometimes months late, like being in Victorian times waiting for the next installment of a Dickens story.

Thanks for you time.

[Mike Covell]

I have completed it twice an a week and love it, ok the theory has been rubbished but the artwork and storyline are great.

I just cannot belive how big the volumne is!!

[Khanada]

My S.O. is deeply into comic books & graphic novels. Before I met him, frankly, I pretty much thought of crap like Archie and Richie Rich when I thought of comics, or I thought of superhero comics. Basically, my position then was that I outgrew the SuperFriends a long, long time ago, and I would not have been caught dead in a comic shop.

Of course, he was determined to change that categorical dismission of mine. He decided he was basically going to find a comic book that blew my stereotypes out of the water, and proved that these can be great books just like ones that aren't 50%+ illustration.

The first blow to the wall was Garth Ennis' & Steve Dillon's Preacher. Not for the squeamish or the fundy. Luckily I'm neither (okay, I'm occasionally squeamish). I opened the book with great disdain, pretty much 'I hope you know I'm humoring you'. So, y'know, a while later when I still had my nose firmly stuck in the book, and was going 'shut up, I'm reading'... (The appearance of The Prophet Bill Hicks definitely didn't hurt.)

The second, and final, blow was the phone book-sized collected edition of From Hell, well prior to the movie. Once I got done snorting and rolling my eyes over the Knight-based plot, it was straight into 'shut up, I'm reading' territory. I loved it. And basically, it's fully one-half of the reason I don't make fun of comic book fans anymore, and I am now sighted once each week in the local comic shop.

[GRISTLE]

My wife got if for me for Christmas this past year - enjoyed it thoroughly. I was also a bit put off at first by the sexual nature of some of the scenes, but looking back they tied in to the development of the story ... nothing gratuitous.

[Ruby]

I can recommend buying it, it is an awesome book!

[Mike Covell]

It is a good read, i have read it twice since Monday and love it, the contrast between the dark (Leading upto the murders) and the light (just after) is pretty awsome.
The story just flows along at a nice pace and the illustrations are spot on, if slightly disturbing!